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Article: $200M hole in transportation budget could be filled with 'congestion pricing'
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- The Daily Record (Baltimore)
- Article date:
- March 31, 2009
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Maryland's highways, unlike those in its northern neighbor states
New Jersey and New York, do not have carpool lanes, save for four in
the Washington metro area. And unlike in Singapore, Marylanders
don't pay tolls to drive in high-traffic areas during peak hours.
But according to a report released Monday by the Greater
Baltimore Committee, the state could help plug a $200 million
transportation budget hole by instituting some form of "congestion
pricing," a broadly defined transportation strategy that seeks to
charge drivers who drive on certain roads at certain times.
The report is the first of about 10 transportation policy studies
to be released over the next few months by the GBC. In ...